Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were not for one curious fact: this little way station happens to be the home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling the bell on the call box and generating enough current to cause a tab with the caller's number to click down on the switchboard in the pine-paneled back room of Elden Hathaway's house, also known as the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. One of the two operators, comfortably seated a few feet from...
...opera house, burned in 1928, was the pride of the town. An ice cream parlor and pool hall did business in the basement. Silent films with piano accompaniment were regularly featured. Young Elden popped the corn and hawked his products to customers at a nickel a box...
...rumpled suit this time, was handcuffed as he entered the federal courtroom. He and Dierk Hagemann of West Germany and Robert Lambert, a California export consultant, sat silently while their lawyers questioned prospective jurors. The products confiscated at the airport were now in cartons stacked next to the jury box. The intended destination of the goods remains unknown, but officials believe that it was the Soviet Union. Said Donald Roberts, Customs Service assistant regional director, before the trial, which is expected to last several weeks: "This is an extremely important case...
...mushrooming firms offer a bewildering variety of services and devices (see box). Some merely sweep for electronic bugs and telephone taps several times a year. Others conduct prehiring investigations, give lie-detector tests, place undercover agents on assembly lines and even scrutinize potential customers...
...local ads. Subscriptions to the magazine (at a cost of 700 per issue) will be marketed jointly by Time Inc. and cable-system owners, with both sharing in the revenues. Because of that arrangement, and because Time Inc. is itself a major supplier of cable programs through its Home Box Office and Cinemax movie channels, some competitors raised questions of potential conflict of interest. Peter Funt, editor and publisher of On Cable, characterized the plan as "sort of like inviting the fox in to give a lesson to the chickens." Said Merrill Panitt, editorial director of TV Guide: "Our feeling...